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Quill & Candle
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"Quill and Candle" is the second book in the Ghost House imprint!
In "Quill and Candle" Scott Thomas invites the reader back to an earlier, quieter time, when travelers relied on horses, when cooking was done over a hearth, and frost nights were illuminated by tapers. It was, perhaps, a more haunted time...
Here you will find the corpse of a child which can foretell the future, and a stately Massachusetts house where the painting of a mourning gown haunts a bedchamber wall. Something terrible inhabits a wintry woodlot and something worse menaces a war-bound frigate. The seventeen stories within are steeped in autumn leaves, chilled in wintry wind and haunted by New England ghosts.
"That's no ordinary chill in the night air. It's the result of spooky tales told by the master. Scott Thomas continues to entertain with timeless stories of the macabre." -- Jordan Rich, WBZ Radio
"Thomas' stories creep under your skin, linger with you for days and follow into many deep, dark nights." -- www.fatally-yours.com
Scott Thomas is an atmosphere wizard summoning up a semblance of time past in his evocation of the weird. He rises from the eerie evolution of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Lafacadio Hearn, and H.P. Lovecraft, yet his poignant stories are astonishingly original.
"Quill and Candle" is the second book in the Ghost House imprint!
In "Quill and Candle" Scott Thomas invites the reader back to an earlier, quieter time, when travelers relied on horses, when cooking was done over a hearth, and frost nights were illuminated by tapers. It was, perhaps, a more haunted time...
Here you will find the corpse of a child which can foretell the future, and a stately Massachusetts house where the painting of a mourning gown haunts a bedchamber wall. Something terrible inhabits a wintry woodlot and something worse menaces a war-bound frigate. The seventeen stories within are steeped in autumn leaves, chilled in wintry wind and haunted by New England ghosts.
"That's no ordinary chill in the night air. It's the result of spooky tales told by the master. Scott Thomas continues to entertain with timeless stories of the macabre." -- Jordan Rich, WBZ Radio
"Thomas' stories creep under your skin, linger with you for days and follow into many deep, dark nights." -- www.fatally-yours.com
Scott Thomas is an atmosphere wizard summoning up a semblance of time past in his evocation of the weird. He rises from the eerie evolution of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Lafacadio Hearn, and H.P. Lovecraft, yet his poignant stories are astonishingly original.
- GenresHorror
210 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
About the author
Scott Thomas
30 books60 followersThis bio is for the Horror/Fantasy author, Scott Thomas. There are also several other writers with this name.
Scott Thomas is an author of ghostly stories, often set in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England and Britain.
He is also the author of the fantasy novel FELLENGREY. His books include the collections URN AND WILLOW, QUILL & CANDLE, MIDNIGHT IN NEW ENGLAND, THE GARDEN OF GHOSTS, OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS, WESTERMEAD, SHADOWS OF FLESH, COBWEBS AND WHISPERS and two books co-written by brother Jeffrey Thomas, THE SEA OF FLESH AND ASH and PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY.
Two of Scott Thomas' stories were reprinted in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #15" (St. Martin's Press) and another story was reprinted in "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII" (DAW Books). Scott lives in New England.
Scott Thomas is an author of ghostly stories, often set in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England and Britain.
He is also the author of the fantasy novel FELLENGREY. His books include the collections URN AND WILLOW, QUILL & CANDLE, MIDNIGHT IN NEW ENGLAND, THE GARDEN OF GHOSTS, OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS, WESTERMEAD, SHADOWS OF FLESH, COBWEBS AND WHISPERS and two books co-written by brother Jeffrey Thomas, THE SEA OF FLESH AND ASH and PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY.
Two of Scott Thomas' stories were reprinted in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #15" (St. Martin's Press) and another story was reprinted in "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII" (DAW Books). Scott lives in New England.
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October 20, 2010Reminiscent of gothic fiction, with ghost stories similar to Henry James’s Turn of the Screw and Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Scott Thomas’s short story compilation Quill & Candle is a refreshing read, jam-packed full of spine-tingling classic ghost stories, setting their stages in the late 1700s early 1800s New England. Before each tale, Thomas annotates the state and the year that the haunting, murder, vampire awakening, ghastly presence, or myriad of other spooky events that took place.
Thomas’s writing style is incredibly detailed and beautiful, artfully creating the mood in each of his stories immediately. He knows his landscape and he knows the time period extremely well, which gives the stories an authenticity that could easily have the reader believing these are true ghost stories having been passed down through the generations and finally put to paper. His tales are best read in dim light, with howling wind, and the sounds of the house settling. Just in time for Halloween, Quill & Candle is a delightful read that has put Scott Thomas on my radar for future personal purchases.
Highly recommended for an adult horror collection, but is easily accessible to a YA audience as well.
Reviewed by Kelly Fann
Thomas’s writing style is incredibly detailed and beautiful, artfully creating the mood in each of his stories immediately. He knows his landscape and he knows the time period extremely well, which gives the stories an authenticity that could easily have the reader believing these are true ghost stories having been passed down through the generations and finally put to paper. His tales are best read in dim light, with howling wind, and the sounds of the house settling. Just in time for Halloween, Quill & Candle is a delightful read that has put Scott Thomas on my radar for future personal purchases.
Highly recommended for an adult horror collection, but is easily accessible to a YA audience as well.
Reviewed by Kelly Fann
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